Stacy Desmond

Meet Up – User Research Basics, How to Get to Know Your Users

Gaining an understanding of who your users are and what concerns them is critical when designing successfully for them. Part of this is getting outside of the conference room and digging into user research.

In this meetup, we will go over stages of user research, starting with data you can gather and ending with interacting with those users in systematic ways. We will pause at each step to have break out work sessions for you to discuss how to best approach that step in your own projects, giving you a game plan for user testing by the end.

Where I'll Be

Stacy Desmond is a geek at heart. Whether it is catching up on what’s new for websites, crunching data, getting her nose deep in code, applying new user experience techniques or presenting at local tech meet-ups, she follows her curiosity for all things UX and web tech. Having run her own web development and user experience services agency, Saveda Web Strategies, for over 15 years, she’s had the opportunity to work with both small and large clients in a variety of settings.

Stacy juggles her tech life with a love of the outdoors and being engaged with the Central Oregon tech communities.